Bun Bun’s Favorite Makeup Products

Here are products I love and wish to acquire good karma for recommending them to the good people in the world. Lol.

I get asked a lot about which products I’d recommend and instead of digging through posts to find them, I’ve consolidated them into a list for your easy reference. Hope you find it useful!

Monistat Chafing Relief Powder-Gel

This is oddly and affectionately called ‘Monistat Face Primer’ not without good reason. It has proven to work so well for my oily skin, gliding on like velvet as a barrier between my skin and makeup for smoother foundation application and longer lasting finishes, that I am now on my second tube.

I own four of these! If you find it a hassle to open and close individual eyeshadow pots, have to open other palettes just to look at the shades inside, or simply want to have different brands of eyeshadows, blush, powders in one place, you’ll find in the Z-palette a great solution for your woes.

Foundations that claim to dry matte work best because they end up looking just right on my oily skin, instead of being flat matte. Very light, easy and safe to travel with due to its rubberized (yet not tacky) packgaging.

This foundation provides good coverage and oil control, and is very convenient to bring around. I’m already on my second compact. I prefer using the Sigma F80 brush to apply this powder instead of the given sponge, or any sponge for that matter.

If you find loose powders a pain, and mess, I highly recommend this pressed powder which is translucent and provides good oil control. Oily skins will benefit greatly from this. If you have dry skin, MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural will suit you better.

Good and cheap bronzer/contouring powder, slightly more brown and less orangey than Gold-Go-Lightly. My MAC 109 brush picks up less product with this bronzer than the Gold-Go-Lightly, so there’s less chance that you’ll over apply with this one. The price and quality is hard to beat!

The BeautyBlender has proven to me why it’s adored by makeup artists all over the world. Blends foundation effortlessly and quickly! I love this as much as I do the Sigma F80 Kabuki Brush, but in a different way.

This is my every day go-to highlighting powder to bring shine (in the good way) to the high points of my face. I love that it is not over-glittery, the shimmers stay wherever you place and staying power is amazing. I apply this with the MAC 188 brush. Yellow-toned Asian girls will LOVE this!

For eyeshadows and eyeliners to stay on for longer, use an eyeshadow primer. The UDPP has a strong cult following and I’m in it. My favorite is UDPP in Eden, which is a nude colored version of the original transparent one. Eden preps, conceals, mattifies, brightens. What’s not to love? If you can’t decide which – Original, Eden, Sin – to get, try this mini set.

Cannot get enough of these! The 3 shades that I have – Emerald Lame, Goldmine and Bronze Goddess, seem to be unavailable on US or UK sites. But you can check them out all the same! They’re like pressed loose shadows, are creamy and very pigmented.

The 3 concealer shades mean that this palette is suitable for a larger range of skin tones, most notably below NC35. I’m NC20-25 and use the salmon shade for undereye circles, the light shade to brighten the eye area, and the green shade for blemishes.

I use this foundation brush to apply ALL my foundations, liquid and compact. I use this with liquid foundation more often and would wash it right after if I do use a compact foundation. I love the softness of the dense bristles and no other foundation brushes I have tried so far can out-do this brush.

The best thing about this lash primer is that it dries clear so you can definitely just curl your lashes, swipe this on and run out of the house. It is good as an eyelash primer as well as a clear mascara.

This mascara continued to work its magic long after its vibration died. It keeps the curls, volumizes, is smudgeproof and a couple of coats is all you need for beautiful, lush lashes. I highly recommend this. It is a little pricey, but so worth it for the shortened time needed for application and long lasting effects.

This eyelash curler really needs no introduction. I got this back when the only eye makeup I wore was mascara, then went on to use other curlers coz I didn’t believe I had such luck in finding the best eyelash curler onset. Many years later, I went back to this one and wondered why I strayed in the first place.

If you want to prevent the bristles of your makeup brushes from splaying, your best bet is to use brush guards to keep them in shape. After washing my brushes, I’ll place the brushes through the brush guards, bottom up, and leave them to dry. When dried, the brushes will look as good as new!

If you wear smudgeproof, waterproof makeup, it is imperative to ensure that all traces of makeup are removed from your face before you go to bed every night. I cannot even recall how many bottles of this I’ve gone through. Maybe 7 or 8….. 12?

These super pigmented, stunningly bright colored eyeshadows give you more bang for your buck! They are larger than MAC ones, the size of MUFE’s. They’re often out of stock so you need to grab them once they’re restocked. Not for the faint hearted.